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WM. DOWELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WIG.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

T 0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM DownLL, of the city of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful improvement in the art of making and constructing wigs, called the improvement for the enlargement of wigs after shrinking;7 of which the following is a Jfull and exact description, viz:

The wig, which has heretofore been made in one piece, is under this invention made in two pieces, namely, the one consists of the scalp, intended to cover the top of the head; the other of the rim, intended to encircle it; and is thus constructed, reference being had to the annexed drawings; viz: the scalp, which is represented with the inside out in Figure No. 2, and marked a, b, is made separate and apart. The rim, which is 1ikewise represented in Fig. No. 1, with the inside out,and marked (Z, e, C, is also made separate; the distance, or that part of the wig between cl, c and e, c, representing the portion to be let out, or used in the enlargement after shrinking. When the wig is first made up, the irr"of-the scalp a b, is attached to the rim d, c, and sewed Vfast.

When the'dw'ig has shrunk, as it does al- 2,883, dated December 12, 1842.

l ways with the heat of the head, and the enlargement becomes necessary, the scalp a, b, is then loosened from the rim ,c, andattached to rim e, @,fasrin Figs. l, 2,. in said drawings exhibited, and markede, a," c, b.

beingthe two extremities of thetwo rimsroi" thescalp and the rim. Y Y

This improvement being' only for the con#V struction of the parts of the wur, and not .for any new material for wigs.

What I claim as my invention-and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The making of the wip; in two separate parts which when permanently secured behind allow the scalp tosbe brought over the rim in front two or three inches, where tho-se parts are fastened together and admit of being` extended,V after shrinkingas herein described at the pleasureV of the wearer.

In testimony whereof I, the said WILLIAM DowELL have hereto subscribed my name in the presence of the witnesses whose names are hereto subscribed, on this twenty first day of November, A. D. 1842.

THEO. CUYLER, JN0. T. S. SULLIVAN. 

